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On June 28, 2025, the European Union’s transition period for the European Accessibility Act ended. For a broad range of commercial services—online stores, banks, transport, and telecom—web accessibility stopped being a matter of goodwill.

Technically, the requirement comes down to EN 301 549 and, for the web, WCAG 2.1 Level AA. You cannot learn WCAG by reading it: half the criteria sound perfectly clear while leaving it completely unclear what exactly should be written in the markup.

Some of our projects fall under the new requirements, and it is not only front-end developers who need to relearn their habits. Designers set contrast and focus order, analysts write error messages, and testers need to know what to check manually.

That is how a project of 20 exercises emerged. In each one, the page looks fine at first glance. It is broken only from an accessibility perspective: headings skip levels, a div with a click handler acts as a button, a label sits next to an input but is not formally associated with it. You edit the markup and immediately see the result as the page rebuilds on the fly. Everything runs directly in the browser, and both your code and progress stay in localStorage: a11y-exercises.github.io

In the last couple years Artificial Intelligence has taken the world by storm, starting to revolutionize the tech industry in many aspects, including UX. AI can help UX designers to automate some routine tasks that take a lot of time, providing more space for creativity and product quality improvement. It’s not likely that AI might replace human designers in the near future, but it can definitely ease the work of designers in some ways. 

Let’s discuss how AI can be applied in UX Design these days:

In today's world, where businesses increasingly rely on effective communication, cloud technologies offer a wide range of solutions to optimize interactions both within the company and with customers. Three of the most popular options are UCaaS, CCaaS, and CPaaS. While they all fall under the umbrella of cloud communications, their functionality and applications differ significantly. Let's delve into the details.

UCaaS (Unified Communications as a Service)

UCaaS unifies various communication channels, such as voice calls, video conferencing, messaging, and email, into a single platform. This allows employees to easily communicate and collaborate with each other, regardless of their location.

Benefits of UCaaS:

UX writing is an essential part of UX design, which plays a huge role in providing qualitative user experience. The job of a UX writer is to compose texts for a digital product, which can be of two types: microcopy (labels, buttons, notifications and other small notes) and macrocopy (larger texts like written content on pages, instructions, information sheets). UX writing helps users easily navigate through the product, perform various tasks and get all the necessary information.